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By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — At 20 airports in the United States, security screening is handled not by the Transportation Security Administration, but by private companies — and their checkpoints aren’t seeing long lines. Airports like San Francisco International, Kansas City International, Orlando Sanford, and 17 smaller facilities participate in TSA’s Screening

By Eric Levenson, Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after a man attacked a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, earlier this month, William Weimer received a call from employees at a Phantom Fireworks store in nearby Livonia. Agents at the store told Weimer, Phantom’s vice president and general counsel for over three decades, they had

By Chelsea Bailey, Stephanie Elam, Norma Galeana, CNN (CNN) — Days before The New York Times published bombshell allegations of sexual abuse that would upend the legacy of famed labor rights leader Cesar Chavez, Delia Garcia answered a phone call from her longtime friend, Dolores Huerta. “She said, ‘Let’s have a conversation, and I need

By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Unpaid Transportation Security Administration workers are struggling to stay afloat — and on the job — amid a partial government shutdown that has frustrated travelers inching through security lines that have sometimes stretched for hours, with unpredictable wait times expected to continue this weekend. “I feel bad for everyone

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — One day in early 1971, a young woman in glasses showed up at a regional office of the Federal Bureau of Investigations in Media, Pennsylvania, about 15 miles outside of Philadelphia. She had made an appointment with the head of the office, introducing herself as a Swarthmore College student

By Alexandra Banner, CNN In an awkward moment on Thursday, President Donald Trump made a joke about the attack on Pearl Harbor while sitting beside Japan’s prime minister in the Oval Office. It was the latest in a string of uncomfortable exchanges with world leaders in the West Wing. Here’s what else you need to

By Katherine Koretski, CNN (CNN) — The offices of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance had people of all ages on Wednesday night waiting for the end of the nightly Ramadan fast, from children sitting at tables doing math homework to cab drivers just getting off their shifts. Just before it was time to pray

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Those who last saw James “Jimmy” Gracey at a Barcelona nightclub may recall a young American man whose curls were backlit by the crimson glow of the dance floor, or the strobe lights glinting off the rhinestone cross he wore around his neck. Gracey parted ways with friends while

By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Want to live longer? Switching up your exercise routine might do the trick. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day. 5 things 1️⃣ Polluting plants When the Environmental Protection Agency rolled back mercury regulations, it said the high cost wasn’t worth

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A blanketed figure stood Wednesday in the Peace Garden of California’s Fresno State University like a shadowy ghost. The large black sheet awkwardly held taut with plastic binder clips hid the statue of Cesar Chavez, who spent decades in the spotlight as an icon of labor power and Latino